# Cuts, lacerations at CATERPILLAR, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016076629` · 7/21/2016 · PONTIAC, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
## Employer
- **Name:** CATERPILLAR, INC.
- **Location:** 1300 4-H PARK ROAD, PONTIAC, ILLINOIS, 61764
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 21, 2016, around 4:45 p.m., an employee was processing hardened steel parts in metal baskets from the heat treat furnace when one of the baskets hit and lacerated his right middle finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*